Canada

I believe the majority of reasonable Canadians want to reach a just and fair reconciliation that rights the wrongs of the past. Any reconciliation that we expect to be done in mutual goodwill must consider the other innocent parties as well.

If private land is affected, then the land owners releasing title need to be fairly compensated by the government. That is the true and total cost of reconciliation.

Many people in this country are sympathetic to righting the wrongs of the past, but they are not going to destroy their own lives to do it. Let's not forget that ancestry and history do not change the fact that people born in this country, whether indigenous or not, have known nothing other than this country, it is their home no less and no more than anyone else born here, and they have nowhere else to go.

There also needs to be a very transparent and clear timeline and total cost for reconciliation with a clear endpoint milestone.

Fighting against these things will simply create an expanding group of malcontents that will eventually have enough political power to push back in highly unproductive ways.

The unusual twist on this situation is that it appears that the people who may have any real sway in pressuring the government to understand the above seem to be the indigenous groups themselves.